From a list. Dan Harmon names Arrested Development among his influences; Community shares its directors, the Russo brothers, and its dense, fast-cut, callback-heavy comedy.
TV Series· 2009· Comedy
Community
by Dan Harmon
Community: it draws on 3 recorded sources.
What influenced Community
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
From a list. Harmon names Twin Peaks among his influences, and Community's genre-bending episodes, including an outright Twin Peaks pastiche, show it.
An episode-level homage: "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" (season 2) builds a whole episode around the study group playing a D&D session.